Hilde Güden

From late 1950s, she moved from light roles to lyric ones in the same operas; from Susanna to Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), from Zerlina to Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), from Despina to Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), from Nannetta to Alice Ford (Falstaff), and from Musetta to Mimi (La bohème).

Mozart: Don Giovanni (as Zerlina) with Lisa della Casa, Cesare Siepi, Walter Berry, Suzanne Danco and Josef Krips (cond.

Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus (as Rosalinde) with Wilma Lipp, Anton Dermota, Julius Patzak and Clemens Krauss (cond.

Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus (as Rosalinde) with Erika Köth, Walter Berry, Regina Resnik and Herbert von Karajan (cond.

Johann Strauss: Der Zigeunerbaron (as Saffi) with Karl Terkal, Walter Berry, Anneliese Rothenberger and Heinrich Hollreiser (cond.

Richard Strauss: Die schweigsame Frau with Hermann Prey, Fritz Wunderlich, Hans Hotter, and Karl Böhm (cond.

Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (as Zerbinetta) with Lisa della Casa, Irmgard Seefried, Rudolph Schock and Karl Böhm (cond.

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (as Eva) with Paul Schöffler, Günther Treptow, Karl Dönch, Anton Dermota and Hans Knappertsbusch (cond.

Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (as Gilda) with Aldo Protti, Mario Del Monaco, Cesare Siepi and Alberto Erede (cond.

Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Hilde Gueden, Waldemar Kmentt, Emmy Loose, Murray Dicek, Oskar Czerwenda, and Walter Berry